Chapter 4 of 23
4 - Being haughty because of one’s master’s love and indulgence
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In the afternoon, Pei Xian was sent to the city’s most luxurious shopping center; a Seascape Shopping Plaza which was famously known as the Shopping Holy Land. Gathered there were world’s top brands and a great number of non-mainstream designer’s products. It would absolutely let you go in with Audi and go out with Auto [1] , a feast of blood dripping wallet.
Pei Xian asked the driver to wait for him in the basement before he took the elevator alone to enter the shopping mall.
Half of the Seascape Shopping Plaza was built on the sea, under which was a huge Underwater World. Pei Xian came up from the passage and took the ocean view elevator.
His last life was arranged plain and to the point that he might as well live as a robot. There was no such thing as shopping or visiting the Underwater World. The everyday food and clothing were all in the charge of a specific personnel. What kind of clothes to wear, what kind of nutritious food to eat and what kind of art to appreciate were never based on his preferences, but based on his identity and work needs.
Deep blue Underwater World; shoal of fish swam fro and back from the top of the head till under the foot; luminous jellyfish….. Pei Xian stroked the smooth glass, deeply shocked, and appreciated the different beauty of the world. This kind of free and unrestrained happiness was so wonderful.
“Where is this bumpkin coming from? Haven’t seen the world and even lean on it to see.” On the other side of the spacious elevator, a girl covered in famous brands from head to toe with a delicate make-up was pulling her male companion’s arm, and quietly jeering.
The female companion beside her echoed with a sigh, “From the passage ei , the underwater view is really not good, anyone can enter.”
Pei Xian’s little ears perked up. The elevator was only that big, how could nothing be heard?
There wasn’t any fitting clothes in Gu Han’s home for him, so he was still wearing the clothes of the night when he wanted to jump from the building. It was so unpresentable in such an extravagant place that people would judge him wrong. But as he was recalling his previous life, if he didn’t have the title of Vice President or above, perhaps even his secretary wouldn’t look at him. He would be the same as any grades and ranks.
Pei Xian was a man who died once. His heart had been liberated, opened and cleared. This kind of noise would not affect his good mood when he first saw the Underwater World.
Soon the elevator reached the first floor. There was a huge star-like dome on top of Pei Xian’s head, a tempered glass Underwater World under his feet, and top-grade bag and jewelry stores that blinded people. Shopping in the mall suddenly became an activity that people were at a loss of what to do.
Pei Xian gave a hurried and cursory glance at them. As a matter of fact, many brands here were precisely his previous life’s daily necessities, but he had never bought them himself as he was not attracted by the rarity of ordinary things.
It was a bit tiring after a half circle on the first floor of the giant shopping center and Pei Xian happened to stumble upon a coffee shop. He planned to take a rest before he continued to complete the big business of spending money.
“Antigua coffee, medium.” Pei Xian told the server very briefly.
When the server first saw that he was wearing ordinary clothes, the server didn’t pay him any attention, but when the server heard the quality of the product ordered, the server caught sight of the S-bracelet on his hand before the server bowed down with meaningful glance. “Sir, we have a Guji, a top-grade Antigua, natural flavor, vanilla and berry aftertaste. You can have a try in small cups.”
Pei Xian nodded as to thank the server and tasted them. In passing, he asked: “Are there anything more personalized or customized brands in this side of Seascape? Those outside are very common.”
The server was secretly left speechless; that’s weird, which Immortal descend to the world? Outside this circle were top brands, and the price of a product could reach thousands, but now they were all compared to a mass market products.
“Sir, ZU is launching new products today. All the shoes in their brand are limited edition jointly signed by top artists. In general, there are only hundreds to thousands of pairs issued.” The waiter looked respectful as he said so.
Pei Xian used his bracelet to turn on location search on his mobile phone.
“Sir, you don’t have to look for it. When you go out and turns right, you’ll see a long queue and that’s precisely the store. You are S [2] , you don’t have to wait in line.” The waiter put the coffee cup for him while pointing out.
Pei Xian took out the black and gold card and put it on the account folder. A few hundred yuan was generously extracted. “Thank you.”
“Have a good afternoon, sir!” The server had work where the luxury goods gathered for a long time that he recognized the black and gold card. But it was the first time the server saw a person buying coffee with the black and gold card that he was shocked and changed tone.
All afternoon, Gu Han was anxiously waiting for Pei Xian’s spending result that he had to go to the meeting in depressed because he couldn’t see the credit information.
In the middle of the financial director’s report, Gu Han’s mobile phone on the conference table vibrated, and he excitedly grabbed it….
[ Your black and gold card consumed ¥360 in DE. ]
DE was a famous coffee shop in China. The mall in the Seascape Plaza was the best and the largest, which Xiao Yuhang used to like going to.
This was a first consumption that Gu Han’s black and gold card could record in the history books. The little quail wandered around the whole afternoon and had a cup of coffee? Boss Gu had an ominous feeling that this task was going to fall through. He won’t even buy anything? Why does he want 30 million? Fold them into stars and put them in bottles for fun?
President Gu was absent-minded in front of a room full of senior executives. He decided to go to the Seascape Plaza after the meeting, press the little quail’s head and personally teach him what it means to spend money!
ZU was the world’s top designer brand, focusing on art collaboration. In recent years, it had become more popular driven by several hot products of God level. It was a collection of top brand works. The grace of a shoe was hard to get. No matter how rich you were, you had to squeeze to be in the first line at the launching.
Namely in Seascape, ZU’s only store in China had reserved free seats for the shopping plaza’s S-guests. It was the only store in the world with free seats.
It was really easy for Pei Xian to find ZU. Standing at the end of the line, there were about 100 people waiting in line. ZU had a single person reception system, which greatly guaranteed the consumption experience with guests, so it was relatively slow.
A sharp-eyed service staff outside the store caught sight of Pei Xian’s S-bracelet and walked over to ask in a very polite and low voice: “Sir, you are Seascape’s S-privilege who can enter the store directly without line up treatment.”
“Okay.” Pei Xian actually didn’t want to be noticed. However, the display in front of ZU Store was very much to his liking.
The service staff took Pei Xian all the way to enter the store through the line of people. The door of the store was closed and the sign of VIP reception was hung up. The man and two women who came up with him in the elevator were happened to be blocked outside and their mouths were opened into an O-shape as they were beyond belief!
ZU Store was more like a brand museum. The guide with delicate makeup said few words. After a brief introduction to the brand, only when Pei Xian asked, was he given a brief explanation.
Finally, the shopping guide showed Pei Xian the new products of the season, the limited versions which were rarely displayed, the commemorative and customized versions, etc.
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It was Pei Xian’s first time to choose shoes by himself. It was truly comfortable and new shopping experience as he looked to the left and right thinking which was good.
“I’d take all four new styles and two commemorative versions.” Choosing until he felt despair, Pei Xian gave up to choose.
The shopping guide was shocked by his indifferent attitude and barely maintained her excellent professional quality. “Sir, the commemorative version need to line up at present, and the customization period is relatively long. If you are sure, I will contact the company.”
“No problem, I’m not in a hurry.” Pei Xian expressed understanding.
He suddenly thought of <The Law of Mistress> he watched under the quilt last night. Heihang said that Huizi’s most beautiful and charming moment was when she swiped his black and gold card in the shop and left as free and easy while inciting the envy of the people…. Learning required practice!
Thereupon, Pei Xian took out his mobile phone and aimed it at the shoes that could be called works of art and gestured with a vulgar V sign.
“Ding” and it was sent to Gu Han.
It was unknown what Boss Gu was doing but the reply came in second.
[ The world’s biggest philanthropist: Buy buy buy! Not buying is a dog! A puppy with deducted salary! ]
Pei Xian held the mobile phone with a dignified face; so it was like that. I finally got <The Law of Mistress> today!
The little quail, who thought he was stepping on Gu Han’s cool spot, opened a notebook in his mind and wrote with passion, remembering the key points.
“Isn’t that Pei Xian?” A slightly shrill male voice came.
Pei Xian looked up and wanted to say “Who are you?” but he didn’t make a sound. He had just transmigrated not long ago and the body’s owner was too much of a cannon fodder that the relationships around him wasn’t written out in the book. So, it’s better for him to shut up and wait.
The service staff beside him wanted to come forward and explain, but upon seeing that the two seemed to know each other, she didn’t meddle in.
In the first place, Pei Xian came in quite suddenly. There was already a guest in the shop. The service staff of ZU made a clever arrangement so that the two guests didn’t meet in the whole process. However, the guest who paid the bill in a secret way didn’t go on the usual way, and suddenly wheeled around and hit back.
Gao Lei’s shiny outer small T-shirt was this year’s show’s top-notch outerwear and coupled with his reluctant to take off sunglasses indoors, at first glance, one would have thought that which little star was haunted by a sex scandal.
He and Pei Xian had worked together in bar. The difference was that he was a part-time college student who thought he was better than Pei Xian, but the fact was ruthless. The innocent little Pei Xian was more popular and earned more tips.
Because of Zhou Kai, the two always fighting and Pei Xian was neither someone who was easy to deal with. All the little tricks kept Gao Lei pitted so much that he began cursing in front of the bar’s entrance.
Not long after Pei Xian was led away by Zhou Kai, Gao Lei, who was unable to bear the loneliness, also caught a little Kaizi [4] . Although he was not from a rich and powerful family, it was no problem to ensure a comfortable and happy family life. Before long, the two came to fruition to get marriage certification, which shocked a group of people to drop their chins.
Recently, he heard that Pei Xian made commotion to force Zhou Kai to marry him, but instead he was kicked. Gao Lei had looked up to the sky and laughed. God had eyes and bitch had his own day [5] !
“I, Gao Lei, don’t you remember?” Gao Lei took off his sunglasses and said, “I heard you were kicked by Zhou Kai? Tsk tsk, poor little one.”
Pei Xian’s reflection arc went around the earth, before he recalled that Zhou Kai the other person mentioned was the mad dog male protagonist.
Gao Lei was angry when he saw that the other person’s expression was unfathomable. He raised the exquisite packing bag and boasted, “I’m not the same. As long as ZU launch a new product, our family Lao Wan will let the driver specially queue up to ensure that I can get it as early as possible. You… you are not here to apply for a shopping guide, is it?”
Industrial conscience Pei Xian was eager to make big philanthropist Gu feel better, so he had no time to argue with the other person and nodded perfunctorily.
At this time, the shopping guide came back and handed the order form to Pei Xian respectfully, “Sir, please keep your order form, you spend ¥700000 in total.”
Pei Xian did not even blink as he took out the black and gold card directly.
“The new four-color shoes of this season are ready for you, sir. Do you want to try them?” The shopping guide professionally and carefully inquired.
Pei Xian casually put away the order form, “no need, I don’t wear them, just think they are very nice.”
Gao Lei had disintegrated into slag. He couldn’t even put down the half raised packaging back or continue to lift it either. He could only afford to buy a pair of ZU’s mail order version. He was embarrassed and turned into an ugly statue in public place with numerous people.
However, he belongs to the kind of person who brought his own staircase and especially able to find steps for himself. In a flash, he hid the packaging bag with the back of hand, and with a look of resentment, “It seems that Young Master Zhou didn’t spend less money to throw away the nuisance you.”
“He’s very poor, and I usually don’t bother a poor man.” Pei Xian had ten billion worth of assets in his previous life. What he said was practical and realistic.
Gao Lei’s big eyes almost popped out, suspecting that he misheard, “You….. What did you say?!”
After the shopping guide swiped the card, she came back with the receipt and the black gold card with the special metal card holder of ZU. “Sir, you have a lot of things. If you don’t mind, we can send them home for you.”
Pei Xian nodded as he sent a message to Gu Han, then directly saying the address, “No.1 Bolin Road.”
Those four words shocked everyone. The central villa area of Bolin Road City was a Fengshui treasured land, and the project was developed by Elder Gu himself. The people who lived there were simply too rich and namely noble. Among them, Villa No. 1 was windward and upstream. The old man intentionally left it for Gu family’s eldest baby Gu Han. The whole city knew that.
“You, you, you….. How can you live there?” Gao Lei’s mouth was half opened, a breath of air was choked in his chest as he was angered and ashamed, and hands and feet were shaking.
Pei Xian’s face said ‘mind your goddamn business’. After the shopping guide thanked him, he went straight to the door. Behind him came the exclamation of the service staff, “what’s the matter with you, sir? Call the doctor, someone is fainting here!”
At the end of the meeting, Pei Xian’s message and credit card’s bill came in almost at the same time. When Boss Gu saw the amount, he was still gloomy as before. The task time left was less than three hours. Gu Han decided to teach his little quail himself about what was called spending money like water!
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Boss Gu stared at the information on the mobile phone: Only spent more than one million yuan in one afternoon, humph, garbage!
Translation Note:
[1] Go in rich, go out poor
[2] S-rank in society probably
[4] An inferior version of zhou kai i.e patron
[5] karma